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their fox went to ground. Not mucli more 

 was done, but better fortune awaited those who 

 met next day. 



February 7th. — 



We met to-day at Holnest Pound, and, 

 after running the hounds through a few 

 covers near the meet, as a kind of preliminary 

 canter, business began with a fox in Sweethills 

 Common, who led us a real chase over a 

 country so replete with fences and obstacles 

 of all kinds and characters as to satisfy the 

 most greedy. From Sweethills he set his 

 mask for Castles, then to Totnel and Bailey 

 Ridge ; here he bore left, and into Sweethills 

 and up and down those gorses, back to Home 

 Bushes, and out, heading for Whitfield ; then 

 out, and again he bore away for his native 

 common. He could not stay there, however, 

 as he evidently wished to do, but was pressed 

 out, and obliged again to face the open in the 

 direction of Castles and Furzy Field, and on 

 to Scevior's. Here he bore left, and went by 

 the corner of Common Plantation and Paper 



